OpenShift CodeReady Containers

This guide will walk you though how to setup Jenkins X on your laptop using OpenShift 4.x with CodeReady Containers

Prerequisites

• download OpenShift 4.x with CodeReady Containers

• once you have the crc binary setup the amount of memory and disk:

crc config set cpus 6
crc config set memory 11264

crc start

• once your cluster boots up you can setup your environment…

eval $(crc oc-env)

You can copy/paste the oc login -u kubeadmin login command….

oc login -u kubeadmin -p XXXX https://api.crc.testing:6443

• to allow Tekton to be installed on OpenShift you also need to run the following commands:

oc new-project tekton-pipelines
oc adm policy add-scc-to-user anyuid -z tekton-pipelines-controller
oc adm policy add-scc-to-user anyuid -z tekton-pipelines-webhook

Setup

• Create the cluster Git Repository based on the jx3-gitops-repositories/jx3-openshift-crc template

  • if the above button does not work then please Login to GitHub first and then retry the button

• git clone the new repository via HTTPS and cd into the git clone directory

• to enable webhooks you need to install and setup ngrok

• setup a webhook tunnel to your laptop:

ngrok http http://hook-jx.apps-crc.testing

• copy your personal ngrok domain name of the form abcdef1234.ngrok.io into the charts/jenkins-x/jxboot-helmfile-resources/values.yaml file in the ingress.customHosts.hosts file so that your file looks like this…

ingress:
  customHosts:
    hook: "abcdef1234.ngrok.io"
...

• git add, commit and push your changes:

git add *
git commit -a -m "fix: configure webhooks"
git push origin master

• Install the Git Operator

• switch to the jx namespace

jx ns jx

• Create or import projects

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